Dead Programmer Society

I love it when I find out about a cool new tool.

An interview with Dr.

The amazing artistic visions of computer science researcher Andrei State combine both grace and utility.

Recently I was in a client meeting with a bunch of managers to discuss some very complex changes that were being proposed for an existing system.

At last, Ruby has a real Continuous Integration system, not just some crazy hacked-together solution.

It was a couple of weeks ago when the RadRails team acknowledged that the ship had started to wander off course.

So now it is official.

According to Computerworld today, Ruby on Rails is the number one of the “five most important technologies that you need to know about in 2007.”

Even that stanch old “enterprisey” publication eWeek has been giving some love to Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

My dear friends, if you don’t have your ticket for RailsConf 2007, you have missed the boat.

I saw this very interesting robot today.

Jeremy Miller has an interesting post today regarding Object Relation Mapping (ORM).

I had noticed that almost all of the cool people post nicely formatted, color coded, beautiful looking Ruby code whenever they post.

Recently, while blogging about the Ruby.NET project, it was pointed out to me that I was incorrect about Ruby.NET not supporting closures.

I finally had a chance to play around with the latest download of the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler.

Security expert Bruce Schneier says not to use Windows Vista, due to the flaws of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) incorporated into the OS.

It has been radio silence for quite a while from the Ruby.NET project.

Once upon a time, I did really cool things at Apple Computer… It was during the reign of Jobs the First, and all was well with the world.

Jeff Atwood’s blog has some excellent points about agile software development, based on a cool article by Roger Sessions from MSDN.

Brian Marick has a great example of how to break a software feature up into user stories.

Portland has good beer.

I just checked my email, and saw that registration has just opened for RailsConf 2007.

The Christian Science Monitor has an opinion piece called Telecommuting as energy saver which is nicely done.

I ran into this older article from Alistair Cockburn the other day called Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development.

My colleague Michael Hocter just sent me a great link to a diagram showing the history of the evolutions of the major programming languages.

My dear friend and former colleague Dan Rasmus has some really important points to make regarding IT operations and emergency preparedness in his blog entry Work Interrupted - Rapid Response in a Crisis.

Last week, there was a very funny post from the extreme programming mailing list, published here.

The Harvard Business Review has published their list of 20 breakthrough ideas for 2007.

Why stop at fabbing a chocolate bar when you can just fab your own whole factory?

The continued rise of the individual as a viable economic unit is being covered by several bloggers, starting with Paul Kedrosky and continuing with Tim O’Reily.

The art of successful software development is matching the delivered software to the needs of the users.

Jeremy Miller and Ayende have each captured some hysterical and yet poignant slices of life from the depths of the seventh pit of hell…or your typical IT project team, as most of us more commonly know it.

A fabber is a machine that can make three-dimensional objects just like a printer can print in two-dimensions on a a piece of paper.

Time again for another incredibly cool looking device… the Optimus Mini Three Keyboard.

In the previous three entries in this series of postings, I have been exploring the basics of creating domain specific languages using Ruby.

I am really into Kevin Barnes' article “To Rewrite Or Not To Rewrite”.

Was Thomas Edison the world’s first patent troll, or at least the most famous?

Paul Kedrosky comments on the latest travesty in the abusive system that we use here in the US for “protecting” intellectual property related to computer software.

I have been playing around with Merb, which is a very cool project from Ezra Zygmuntowicz.

Obie Fernandez comments on Seth Godin’s observation that he would be a lousy pilot.

I was just reading the latest stats from the TIOBE Programming Community Index.

One of the biggest problem that Guerilla Rubyists have had getting our favorite language into the big companies that pay our bills, has been the corporate firewall.

I have just released a new update of Hebruby, the Ruby hebrew date conversion library.

This is another installment in a series about creating domain specific languages with Ruby.

I have usually been in favor of measurement of any possible aspect of the software development process.

Previously, I was exploring the basics of DSL creation using Ruby.

James Shore just posted a very cool chapterette from his upcoming book on agile development called “The Planning Game”.

I have been working on a prototype of a Ruby domain specific language for one of my clients, a very large financial services company.

I just installed the brand new Gmail for Mobile on my Motorola RAZR.

I am still overwhelmed with excitement about the big news that John Lam, creator of RubyCLR has accepted a full time job with Microsoft.